Wow. I had not realized that it had been so long since the last time I posted.
Well, this weekend brought the Wine and Jazz Festival back to Kearmey and of course Jessi ventured west to go with me. The weather was threatening nastiness like it usually does for the W&J Fest but we were not disheartened. We got there around 7, met up with some friends and found a table outside near the stage to plan our stratify. The lightening was flashing and the rain was just starting to sprinkle when we headed in for our first tastings... Which I got exactly one of when they told us the event was shutting down because of the weather. If it cleared, they would open back up and we were welcome to come back.
What to do until then you may ask. Well, we did what everybody else did... We headed to the closest bar to wait out the storm. The poor guy behind the bar at the Garage didn't know what hit him. He was ready for a quiet evening at work when he suddenly got slammed by dozens of people from the festival. He desperately called other bartenders for help while trying to serve drinks, which he was doing rather well considering. Everybody was cool with the wait so that made his job easier.
We stayed there for a couple of rounds, found one more friend and headed back to the MONA parking lot for round two of wine.
Most of the vineyards and wineries that were there were the same from years past but that didn't stop Jessi and I from hitting them up for our favorites (and not so favorites-Sweet Hattie anybody?). We did find some new good ones, my new favs of the evening were Silver Fox from Silver Hills and Wine-A-Rita from... somewhere. During the course of the evening, we found or were given about 20 extra tickets so we had that many more chances to try the wines that peaked our interest.
We had some good laughs, tried some great wine, and listened to some good music while thumbing our nose at Nebraska weather. Overall, it was what the Wine & Jazz Festival has come to mean to me: bad weather and an awesome time.
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